"please tell me how an OS whose home screen displays a dumb wall of application launchers instead of something useful like incoming agenda entries is a "smarter" mobile platform.

Are you a simpleton? "

No, but I'm genuinely waiting for an in-depth depiction of your point of view.

You said this :

What counts now is not dumbed down systems like Symbian but the smart mobile platform - that's the game to play and its the game iOS is clearly winning.

As a Symbian phone owner and a casual iOS user, if I were to depict one OS as "dumbed down" and one as "smart", I'd rather say that Symbian is the smart one and iOS the dumb one. If you want, I can explain why in details.

You seem to think the opposite. So I ask you to say why, in your opinion, Symbian is a dumbed down OS and iOS is a smart OS. Because since I don't use iOS on a daily basis, I may be misunderstood and not see what makes this OS a "smart mobile platform" instead of a rich guy's toy which is not good at doing anything useful.